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hgtv

09-12-2008, 07:26 PM

i started out watching hgtv to learn some of the systems and how various trades performed their expert work on houses and remodeling projects around the house. not that i wanted to be a diyer on every trade, but to be familiar with different systems. i as a woodworker enjoyed the shows directed at us. but now i look at hgtv and see a designer sashaying around, painting walls purple and building hideous furniture out of construction grade plywood and staining it. or i can see what someones walls tell them. am i crazy or does anyone agree hgtv doesnt know where their more serious audience is?

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I'm glad I'm not the only one with the same opinion as you. What's with these wack jobs hanging tie died beadsheets over the windows, spray painting every damn thing in site and hacking crap plywood together to make furniture? For gods sake we had better looking furniture and decor in my college frat house.

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HGTV is directed at morons anyway. A true die-hard DIYer will have hands on experience and won't need to learn how to build something from watching a dumb TV show. I watched it a few times, and realized this quickly. I laughed my *** off at some of the garbage ideas and I love how they use the camera to make everything look 'super-easy.' First they show an actor soldering one tiny 1/2" elbow and making it look super fun and easy. "Ok folks, so in a few hours we'll check back on the plumbers to see how the 500 square foot bathroom rough-in is coming along." Then they have a team of pro plumbers rough it in and then turn the cameras back on. They never show the real work, just the end results. "Anyone can do it!"

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im so confused, i dont know if i should put a new cdx top on my wifes dining room table or make a beautiful light fixture from a bale of hay. i am not even a good woodworker lol. my hands shake a little and sometimes my joints arent the best, but even my shop jigs look like Michelangelo up against their masterpieces.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one with the same opinion as you. What's with these wack jobs hanging tie died beadsheets over the windows, spray painting every damn thing in site and hacking crap plywood together to make furniture? For gods sake we had better looking furniture and decor in my college frat house.

Some of the shows can be OK, but the "experts" they have as the host always piss me off. Russ Morash doesn't pick models for his shows, but they at least seem to know what they are talking about. All the other DIY shows pick some model (male or female) to be a host and an expert instead of just getting someone who is actually knowledgeable about the field. Cosmetics on a swine ...

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"When we build let us think we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our fathers did for us."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

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Have you noticed that the female home owner on these shows usually seems to have rather large....
Best part of the show I quess

That's because its all about getting viewers to hang around through the commercials, not about conveying any useful information on how to do this or that.

"When we build let us think we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our fathers did for us."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)